- Ashley Ketcherside, 38, fired from her position at Godley ISD after two prostitution convictions in 2012 and 2016 came to light
- The school district shifts blame to the Texas Department of Public Safety for missing felony convictions
- Mother known as ‘Lola Brea’ to guide customers
A Texas school district is trying to blame flawed background checks for why a convicted prostitute and working escort was hired as a sex educator.
Ashley Ketcherside, 38, passed a background check to volunteer and serve on multiple committees in the Godley Independent School District outside Dallas.
The school district blamed state police for inadequate background checks.
“We rely primarily on the Texas Department of Public Safety to provide background information on these citizens. Those reports are not always perfect,” teachers said in an email to parents local Fox station.
Known as “Lola Brea” to her escort clients, people who legally paid to keep her company, she has two convictions for prostitution from 2012 and 2016.
Ashley Ketcherside (pictured) of Godley, near Dallas, has been removed from her position at Godley ISD due to two prostitution convictions in 2012 and 2016 and current escort work
While there is no suggestion that Ketcherside’s current work was illegal or that she posed a threat to children, she served on the School Health Advisory Council, which recommends health education protocols to school boards.
‘We had no idea what was going on in her personal life. She was always very friendly and personable,” said a Godley ISD School Board administrator. (Photo: Godley ISD in Texas)
The world’s oldest profession is illegal in the Lone Star State.
Ketcherside, whose maiden name is Ashley Villalobos, was outed as a former sex worker after parents raised concerns about multiple businesses she said she owned but did not elaborate on what they were.
While there is no suggestion that Ketcherside’s current work was illegal or that she posed a threat to children, she served on the School Health Advisory Council, which recommends health education protocols to school boards.
This includes “appropriate grade levels and curricula for instruction on … sex trafficking,” according to the website.
‘We had no idea what was going on in her personal life. She was always very friendly and personable,” said Mary Lowe of the nonprofit Families Engaged for Effective Education.
After receiving complaints from parents, Lowe told Godley ISD School Board trustee Kayla Lain about Ketcherside’s history of prostitution. Lain said she was shocked
Lola Brea’s images are on several public websites and many are too racy to include in reports
The school assured Ketcherside parents never had contact with students and was removed from its position this month.
“The district would obviously not knowingly allow anyone to work or volunteer in a staff position with certain criminal convictions in the background,” the district told the network.
Ketcherside appears in a Godley ISD YouTube video from SHAC’s first meeting of the school year in October. She is also listed as a committee member in the minutes of the meetings.
Members must be appointed by the school board, according to a district spokesperson. They added that Ketcherside entered the district this year.
She also volunteered with the Family and Community Engagement Committee, the Parent Teacher Organization and the Godley Athletic Booster Club, while leading a local cheerleading group.